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...Hospital received its largest donation in history yesterday—$100 million—to create a joint institute between Harvard, MIT, and affiliated hospitals with the stated goal of finding a vaccine for AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs an AIDS clinic...
Train Stopper. Patachou (real name: Henriette Ragon Billon) never sang in public until five years ago, when she and her husband opened a small cafe next to the pastry shop. One night she joined a crowd of singing customers and they loved her. After that, she sang a little every night, walking from table to table, coaxing people to join in. One night Patachou saw a man cut off his friend's necktie for a joke. "I think this is most funny," she recalls. "I like the look of terreur on the man's face...
...Oakland, Calif, and Portland, Ore., for shows of two of the Pacific Coast's three important Roller associations, breeders last week hopefully expressed their prize birds. The complicated work of judging Oakland's 250 showbirds fell to Frank Bires and William Ragon (for their services, $300 each). They gave the show's master team championship to a quartet owned by San Diego's Olsen Schummer. It was the team's twelfth successive first prize...
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